By Mark | January 25, 2020
With everyone talking about the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, my mind went, as it often does when thinking about the Nazi extermination camps, to my friend, the Atlanta folk artist Ned Cartledge. Cartledge, as I may have mentioned here before, saw the horrors of the Nazis firsthand toward the end of the […]
Posted in Art and Culture, History, Mark's Life, Uncategorized | Also tagged 1945, 82nd Airborne, 89th Chemical Mortar Battalion, Atlanta, Auschwitz, cesspool, concentration camps, Dwight D. Eisenhower, folk art, Gardelegen, Gardelegen massacre, genocide, Germany, holocaust, holocaust denial, KKK, Ku Klux Klan, Lorrie Mell, Ludwigslust, Nazi, Ned Cartledge, Neuengamme, never forget, propaganda, racism, scapegoats, starvation, torture, Unitarian, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, war, war crimes, Wöbbelin, World War II |
By Mark | November 11, 2018
There are a lot of reasons not to like Donald Trump. Some, admittedly, are better than others. Today, I have a really trivial one to add to the list… Given his antics in Europe right now, he’s forcing me to change my annual post about how I prefer Armistice Day to Veterans’ Day. Here’s what […]
Posted in History, Mark's Life, Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged 1918, Aisne-Marne, ambient audio, Angela Merkel, Armistice Day, Balkans, Baltics, Belleau Wood, Ben Rhodes, budget cuts, Canada, caravans, David Frum, Department of Veterans Affairs, Donald Trump, Emmanuel Macron, Estonia, Florida, France, Germany, historic audio, Hooters, Imperial War Museum, Joe Dunford, John Kelly, Joint Chiefs of Staff, Justin Trudeau, Latvia, Le Monde, Lithuania, Marine One, Marines, nationalism, NATO, November 11, Paris, peace, racism, rain, River Moselle, unfounded accusations, veterans, Veterans' Day, Vladimir Putin, war, Winston Churchill, World War I, Yugoslavia |
By Mark | November 11, 2016
I don’t dislike the military. I think we, as a nation, spend far too much on it, and I think that we’d ultimately be better served by investing a great deal of that money on education, alternative energy research and any number of other things instead, but, in general, I don’t have an issue with […]
By Mark | November 11, 2015
I don’t dislike the military. I think we, as a nation, spend far too much on it, and I think that we’d ultimately be better served by investing a great deal of that money on education, alternative energy research and any number of other things instead, but, in general, I don’t have an issue with […]
Posted in Other, Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged 1918, Armistice Day, Breakfast of Champions, military, military budget, veterans, Veterans' Day, war, WWI, WWII |
By Mark | October 12, 2015
It would appear, based on the above photo, which was posted to Reddit this morning, that Christopher Columbus no longer garners the same kind of respect in Detroit that he once did… Yes, the bust of Christopher Columbus, which is located at Jefferson Avenue and Randolph Street, just outside of the Renaissance Center, apparently got […]
Posted in Detroit, History, Uncategorized, Ypsilanti | Also tagged Augusto Rivalta, Breakfast of Champions, Columbus Day, conquest, Dia de la Raza, Donald Trump, explorers, fallen heros, Indigenous People's Day, Mexico, piñatas, racism, the border with Mexico |
